Private Project

Schizophrenia

We live in a world of schisms and divisions on every level, physically, materially, emotionally and spiritually; herein lies the paradox, life and its’ vulnerability expressed in the short film Schizophrenia

  • Ilan L Cohen
    Director
  • Ilan L Cohen
    Writer
  • Jakob Hreščak
    Producer
  • Jakob Hreščak
    Post-production
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Other
  • Genres:
    Drama
  • Runtime:
    8 minutes 39 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 27, 2020
  • Country of Origin:
    Australia
  • Language:
    English
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Ilan L Cohen

Ilan Cohen is a Sydney based poet turned filmmaker; author of “The Seed” and some 20000 poems about love, nature, spirituality and life in general. He is the owner/director of Dark Matter Film Production turning Poetry into scripts for film. Ilan’s ethos is “if you breathe it, write it” turning life’s little haunts and dilemmas into the magic of film. He is also a Full Emerging Member of the Australian Directors Guild. Ilan has directed a haunting film about the coronavirus and a new romantic film about love demonstrating his eclectic interest in all things joyous and mysterious.

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Director Statement

Based on the poem by Ilan Cohen and artistic eye of Jakob Hrescak, Schizophrenia is an exploration into the darkest channels of mind with a memory that life is beautiful, the film waxes and wanes between light and dark, fear and hope describing suffering as Rats screeChhhh
In
This wasteland
Damn this
This
Pain,
This life